Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

[Megarave]

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Let's say I got 5 Terminal Servers in a single domain and all my users are
being distributed over these 5 servers when they log on. User JaneDoe ends up
on server 1 on Monday and goes on the internet and stores some data from the
forms she filled out.

At the end of the day she logs of and on Tuesday she logs in again, being
diverted to server 3. When she visits the exact same site (which, for matter
of troubleshooting is only being server by one webserver), her stored data is
gone and IE7 doesn't give her the option to fill out the exact same form she
did on Monday.

That's my problem it seems like Terminal Servers are storing the
AutoComplete somewhere else and it is not being saved to the roaming
TSProfile as soon as a user logs off.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:

User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User
profiles
"Exclude directories in roaming profile"
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 25 jul 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

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>
> Let's say I got 5 Terminal Servers in a single domain and all my
> users are being distributed over these 5 servers when they log
> on. User JaneDoe ends up on server 1 on Monday and goes on the
> internet and stores some data from the forms she filled out.
>
> At the end of the day she logs of and on Tuesday she logs in
> again, being diverted to server 3. When she visits the exact
> same site (which, for matter of troubleshooting is only being
> server by one webserver), her stored data is gone and IE7
> doesn't give her the option to fill out the exact same form she
> did on Monday.
>
> That's my problem it seems like Terminal Servers are storing
> the AutoComplete somewhere else and it is not being saved to the
> roaming TSProfile as soon as a user logs off.

 

[Megarave]

Vera,

there is not such setting configured. To be more precise the setting is
"Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply within this environment.

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:
>
> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User
> profiles
> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

OK, I guess that that would have been too easy...

The microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup has
numerous AutoComplete posts. I've noticed that you have already
posted there and been advised to ask here, but I feel that that is
really the place to ask, because the issue also arises on single
PCs.

I've done some searching there, and most posts recommend using a
utility found here:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html

I haven't tried it myself, but the information on the site might be
enough to help you solve the problem. It documents that the
location used to store these AutoComplete passwords has changed in
IE7.

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 25 jul 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Vera,
>
> there is not such setting configured. To be more precise the
> setting is "Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply
> within this environment.
>
> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:
>>
>> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User
>> profiles
>> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

I've just downloaded and run the utility on my XP client.
I'm amazed and scared (maybe naively so) by what I found!
It took several minutes to complete a search to find all my stored
passwords, and there where *many* which I wasn't even aware that
they were stored (including sites where I am sure that I never
opted to save the password, as well as passwords saved in other
applications, like a non-Microsoft FTP client, FrontPage and what
not). All in cleartext!

That was the scary part. Now the good part: I had a problem myself
where I had answered IE's prompt to save my password for a
particular site to "No, don't save", and later on, I regretted
that, but wasn't able to get the prompt back, even after deleting
history, cookies, temporary IE files, reconfiguring AutoComplete
options, etc.

With this utility, I could see an entry for the site, with my
username, but no password. I deleted the entry, and voila: next
time I went to the site, I was given the choice if I wanted to save
my password again!

I'm not sure that all this is going to help you, but you will at
least be able to figure out where exactly the password is stored.

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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"Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote on
25 jul 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> OK, I guess that that would have been too easy...
>
> The microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup has
> numerous AutoComplete posts. I've noticed that you have already
> posted there and been advised to ask here, but I feel that that
> is really the place to ask, because the issue also arises on
> single PCs.
>
> I've done some searching there, and most posts recommend using a
> utility found here:
>
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html
>
> I haven't tried it myself, but the information on the site might
> be enough to help you solve the problem. It documents that the
> location used to store these AutoComplete passwords has changed
> in IE7.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
> =?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote on 25 jul 2007 in
> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
>> Vera,
>>
>> there is not such setting configured. To be more precise the
>> setting is "Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply
>> within this environment.
>>
>> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:
>>
>>> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:
>>>
>>> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User
>>> profiles
>>> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"